Carla Viviana

Carla is an entrepreneurial young woman. She is 23 years old and lives with her family. She has one son who is her biggest pride and for whom she works tirelessly to be able to provide a better future.

She has worked for almost one year in the cleaning team at a company. She does very well because she is responsible, hard working, honest and dedicated to her work.

Carla is thankful to the Kiva lenders because with their support she will be able to make repairs to her home, such as painting the wall, and to buy a living room furniture set. This way, her family will feel more comfortable and will improve its quality of life. Carla will continue to make an effort to get her family ahead in life.

Additional Information

About Caja Rural Señor de Luren

Caja Rural Señor de Luren is a microfinance institution based in Ica in southern Peru that primarily promotes the development of the country’s agricultural sector through lending. Today, it also offers credit for consumers, microenterprises and housing improvements, and has expanded its financial services to promote micro-savings and provide micro-insurance. This institution has been instrumental in helping borrowers recover from the devastating earthquake in the Ica region in 2007, and works with Peru’s National Bank to reach some of the poorest and most remote microfinance clients in the country.

About Housing Loans

Many poor families cannot afford housing that meets their needs. When you make a housing loan on Kiva, you give people access to flexible capital to obtain or improve their homes. Better housing means better health, sanitation, and even educational outcomes for children. A house can also be much more for entrepreneurs who run businesses out of their homes. In this way, housing and small business loans on Kiva share a common purpose: to alleviate poverty and enable families to enjoy more stable lives.